Travis Lee

I learned Java as an undergraduate and used the language throughout courses in Data Structures, Algorithms, Machine Learning, and Graphics. I also used Java as a back end engineer at Amazon while working on a Cloud Drive web service for image cutting. I developed monitoring features of the Cloud Drive image cutting service in Java which enabled us to bring the service to external customers’ reliability and performance standards.

At Amazon, I invented and developed a unique cross-platform test framework in Python and C# for the Amazon Cloud Drive Mac and Windows desktop apps. At UPROPE, a startup, I created a Django web app for rock climbers to track climbing progress. At Microsoft, I created a Python SDK for 3rd party apps to integrate with Office 365.

At Leonteq AG, I was a backend Scala developer working on the product documentation generation web service. I enjoyed working alongside 40 other Scala developers and learning more about functional programming. At the Scala Center (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) I rewrote the tour of Scala, introductory documentation geared towards programmers coming from other languages. I reworked the wording to make it clearer based on the comments section and made the examples more self-evident instead of snippets from PhD theses. I also worked on some side coding projects such as sbt.

At Splunk, I developed a framework for automated testing of Splunk’s clustering feature using Python and Pytest. At Amazon, I created a test framework that would log in, click around the app, and upload photos. It was cool to write a single test in Python and see it work on both Mac and Windows.